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  • No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.213, Ravenio Books
  • There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.646, Ravenio Books
  • Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

    Children   Book   Hands  
    Tryon Edwards (1866). “World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry”, p.236
  • To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

    Money   Devil   May  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.867, Ravenio Books
  • Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

    Wisdom   Past   Guidance  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.87, Ravenio Books
  • Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.94, Ravenio Books
  • Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.246, Ravenio Books
  • Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1349, Ravenio Books
  • The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

    "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 517), 1891.
  • The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.

    Beautiful   Summer   Fall  
  • To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.81, Ravenio Books
  • Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

  • Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.298, Ravenio Books
  • Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.555, Ravenio Books
  • The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

    Memories   Secret   Mind  
    Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”
  • He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

    Anger   Sorrow   May  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.81, Ravenio Books
  • Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.218, Ravenio Books
  • He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

    Change   Truth   Mistake  
    Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”
  • Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

  • To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.885, Ravenio Books
  • True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

    Humility   Self   Spirit  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.605, Ravenio Books
  • Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

    Appreciation   Art   Book  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.91, Ravenio Books
  • Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

    Regret   Apology   Past  
    Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.240
  • What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

    Giving   Lost   Left  
  • Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

    Real   Needs   Speak  
    Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.356
  • To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1350, Ravenio Books
  • Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

    Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”
  • One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

    Fall   Lessons   Genocide  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.110, Ravenio Books
  • Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.79, Ravenio Books
  • Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.409, Ravenio Books
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